I want to get rid of my LG Revolution and switch to a Droid Charge, but my upgrade is not until a while. I have unlimited data, so I won't be changing anything with my plans, just the phones. How do I deactivate my Revolution, so I can purchase a Charge (probably of off eBay). What steps do I need to take?

If you purchase from a third party, like eBay, then you simply activate the new phone when you get it. Activating the new phone will automatically deactivate the old one. There are a few ways to do this:

1-Call customer service from a different line than the one you want to switch the phones on; they will ask you for your account information and new phone information.

2-Go online, log in to your MyVerizon account, and find the box ont he main page that says "Activate a phone". Follow the directions there.

3-Turn off (power off) the old phone, dial *228 on the new phone and choose option 1. Follow the prompts to activate the new phone.

However never ever dial *228 on a 4G LTE device. That is unless you really want to corrupt the SIM card.

OOOOhhhh, I'll need to note this - activation of a 4G LTE is NOT done via *228? A whole new ball game with 4G that I need to learn if I am going to be trying to answer questions..... thanks for the info, Ann.

Yep that's right. When I got the Tbolt the first time, all the salesguy did was turn on the phone after he activated the phone through the computer.

Three weeks later, I was so paranoid about the rep at the Verizon store possibly corrupting my SIM card when I ported my phone number back from AT & T that I refuse to let him touch the phone. He kept telling me to dial the *228 number and I kept refusing because I knew it was wrong from the stories on here and other Android sites. Add to that my brief experience with a GSM phone, I was aware that wasn't how the SIM cards worked.

The steps provided by Ann154 & SuzyQ are correct. Thanks for your assistance with the community. Calvin411, if you require additional assistance to get you device activated, Please PM me your wireless number.

So lets say I have 2 lines on my VZ Account. I recently upgraded my secondary line so I could get a better phone. SO the phone that I have on my main line is My Droid Eris and that has been acting up lately and so I decided to upgrade my secondary line (which I did use for business) anyways. I got excited when I got the phone but didnt really understand how 4G worked and so I put in the sim card and got it all activated and stuff but for some reason I can put the phone on the main line and when I go through switch device it tells me that the phone on account isnt activated and I would have to call customer service. So what do I do?

You need a different SIM card for the main line. And Droid Eris needs to be turned off. You might also need a third device to activate on the second line so that the 4G phone is deactivated from the second line.